Transbaikal

Transbaikal is a region of Russia located to the east of Lake Baikal, just to the north of Mongolia and China in East Asia. Transbaikal was home to many labor camps and gulags used by the Russian Empire to imprison socialist revolutionaries, as well as to a major railroad and some uranium mining and processing facilities during the 1900s. Today, Irkutsk, Ulan-Ude, Chita, and Shilka are major cities in the region.